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This week in development

In order of least important to most important:
X/HTML work progresses to ensure compatability with Gnumeric,
AbiWord 2.0.7 has just been released as a tarball,
and “Angel” only has one more episode to air.

Attention Indic and Arabic users!
We need more of you to attempt to use and report bugs on CVS Head.
As we continue to improve the glyph-shaping engine, we will need to know what is working and what is not.
You, our users, are an essential part of our community development.
Please participate in helping us improve the application all of us are using.

In case you haven't guessed, the fact that the plea below, languages,
has remained unchanged is because no-one has even told us they're trying to help.
However, we were told that two were not that different (if at all) from a close linguistic relative.
That said, please-oh-please give us assistance.

Hi there.
We're looking for people who can help keep AbiWord accurate and uptodate in a number of languages.
Please look over them and see if ither you or someone you know might be able to assist us.
Remember, your contribution is not only welcomed or encouraged but is also documented,
for an easier-to-brag experience.
The languages we are looking for are listed below:

Afrikaans[af-ZA]

Armenian[hy-AM]

Assamese[as-IN]

Chinese (Singapore)[zh-SG]

Cornish[kw-GB]

Corsican[co-FR]

Croatian[hr]

Esperanto[eo]

Estonian[et]

Farsi[fa-IR]

Flemish (Belgium)[nl-BE]

Frisian[fy-NL]

Georgian[ka-GE]

Hausa (Niger)[ha-NE]

Hausa (Nigeria)[ha-NG]

Hindi[hi-IN]

Icelandic[is-IS]

Korean[ko-KR]

Macedonian[mk]

Marshallese (Nauru)[mh-NR]

Occitan[oc-FR]

Thai[th-TH]

Urdu[ur-PK]

Due to the traffick of people who are trying to help with picked up languages,
those who are interested in helping us are encouraged to join
ither mailing list.
Please read the instructions for the list you are most interested in joining to get the correct address.
Joining, as you'll find out, is a simple three step process.
First, send a letter to one email address;
second confirm you sent the letter by sending a reply,
and third...oops, there is no step three.
Ok, so, excluding all the minor steps of what to click and/or type, it's really a simple two-step process.

There are just two important reminders in using the mailing lists
which all users are expected to do.
If you want your message to even make it to the list, you message will need
to be in plain text only.
Due to an insurgence of a certain virus a while back,
all HTML email is rejected for reasons of sanity.
Webmail users will have to figure out how to turn on plain-text only before sending email.
Second, you are required to send the language in Engrish or English.
For those of you who don't speak English well enough to send Engrish,
it is recommended that you send the letter in both your native language (identify your language please)
and after that, in the same message, send it in a machine-translated version of your message,
like BabelFish,
in case no-one who speaks your language is available to translate your message for the list.
Failure to follow these proceedures in the past have led to frustration and resentment.
We apologise in advance for any inconvenience these two requests may cause you.

SillinessDeadly Seriousness of the Week

Now, if I could get every domestic fan to send in an average of $7.50 net,
I could still have my show, my beautiful show!
That's right, make a check out to Mutant Enemy with the memo “Angel Blood Money,”
we just might have something.
Where have all those fan efforts gone!?
I WANT MY SHOW, GORRAM IT!

There was even talk that Drew was going to do a Tuvix thing and create...SPANGEL!
It was gonna be funny!
Bring me my show!
If not, bring me the first half of the next season at least...SPANGEL!
C'mon!
Nothing gets better than SPANGEL!
SPAAAAAAAAANGEEEEEEEEEL!

Also, see the News Index for missed AWN's.
You'll notice some screenshots in there, somewhere.

Traffic on the
developer mailing list
has settled at about 50-100 postings per week.
This week, interesting topics on the developer list included:

[ANN] server outage
,
Mailing list are back
:
→
At the beginning of last week, Nyorp, the AbiServer #1,
was cut off from the outside world due to excessive email relaying,
most of which was due to Windows users who didn't take time to patch their systems.
To bring AbiSource back online,
the bulk of the operations have since been moved to BlueAnt,
which recieved its luscious bandwidth thanks to the generous Univerity of Twente.
§
DNS, unfortunately, didn't percipitate all the way through on my end,
but thanks to Mikey and Ryan, I was able to obtain a connection.
Unfortunately, since home directories have yet to be moved over,
I do not have a graph.

commit: Initial pasting of XHTML into AbiWord.
,
commit: Paste Images too.
commit: HTML import/export fixes.
,
HTML export regressions.
,
What route for the XHTML importer?
:
→
Martin Sevior begins work on bringing X/HTML managing up to date.
Originally using a nifty pseudo-clipboard technique that could apply to all formats,
he was encouraged to bring the true form of the related functionality.
Martin is now considering whether to allow the XHTML importer to be more tolerant,
or whether it should freak out and run away.
It's still early enough to let your opinion be heard.
§
After years of hearing Dom say that
if he were to change the native format of AbiWord,
he'd choose RTF because it's just as feature rich and well documented,
it was quite a surprise to hear from Hub that RTF can't make text boxes.
Of course, that could just be the Engrish talking.

ATTN: Intent to release 2.0.7
,
ATTN: STABLE branch closed for 2.0.7 release!
:
→
Out of the magic hat comes Release 2.0.7!
Yes, from the people who don't know who from whom, it's the latest word processor:
AbiWord 2.0.7.
Nolonger equipped with a “patch to nuke Iraq,”
something we've been meaning to get rid of since we realised that U.S.
is taking Open Source seriously.
§
Debain Sid users already have had 2.0.7 available to them for some time,
thanks to mhatta's magic time machine (a Pentium VI), so,
upgrading for us will be completely unnecessary ;o)

Keep track of the latest developments, from bug fixes to requested enhancements.
You'll find it easy to watch the progress made by the developers or individual developers involved.
Perhaps you'll even be encouraged to try a development build of either branch.

A harsh day for the markets with little activity.
Alan Bluespan noted that the return of server access should result in a correction quite soon.
Louis Bugkeyser believes that activity will remain consist but otherwise relatively low.

For information about how to view the chart, please read 142's Special Interest.

Several projects are used by, use or synchronise with AbiWord.
Some of the most noteworthy libraries and applications will be summarised here.
Some may be added under guise of the GNOME Office Suite.;
others may be added because it's really just a plug by request.
Want your project plugged?
Send money to Dom.
I'm offering rates of $10 per plug, $25 for a month-long plug, $50 for a quartly plug and $200 to go all year.
P*ing us off or the discontinuation of this section does not result in a refund.

AbiWord uses several libraries, and other sub-applications, to give it that extra bit of polish.
Here, you will learn whatever news I scrape together or has been sent to me in relation to them.
I wanted to do more this week, but not so much.

AbiWord is crucial to the use of, coordinates development with,
or to some extent relies upon a number of applications.
Only one two of these applications make it easy for me to steal information from them,
so, we're talking about a lot of blog reading.

Jody
announced
the release of Gnumeric 1.2.12 this week.
This is a critical release which is necessary to repair excel (xls) output that
has otherwise been causing Microsoft's Excel to crash when attempting to open them.
Also this week, Jody
announced
the release of libgsf 1.9.0.
Now...where's that sock puppet when you need it?

Now, another possibility, and a possible future AbiShow, at that,
Colin JN Breame
proposed
the possibility that he and a friend would like to make a PowerPoint clone.
Lots of discussion off and on list, and you'll probably find it very educational,
even if you're a little curious about politics and project development and whatever else.
Don't worry, I'll keep an eye on 'er for ya for awhile ;o)

Nickolay V. Shmyrev has fixed a major Find and Replace bug.
Dave has approved the patch via proxy of Geert.
Geert also announces that version 0.8.0 of Conglomerate was secretly released in December of 2003.
For more information, see thread
“Find and Replace.”

I'm announcing that I will discontinue the AWN...
when there is no more “Angel” in syndication.
Thanks to FX, that will almost certainly be a long time from now.
Maybe it was actually a really good show.

Approximately once a month, don't hedge bets, I'll get this updated by asking (read: whining at) dom.
In the meantime, whenever you want to see how much is in and where it gets diverted, just peek down here.

Word of caution, numbers lightly fudged due to (hopefully) temporarily incomplete data.
Like a consultant's suggested price, you'll find hidden meaning in the data if you stare long and hard.
Surgeon's General's Warning: Staring long and hard may have psychotropic affects;
keep out of reach of people who like that sort of thing.

I cannot promise the time of de-fudging, nor can I promise there will be de-fudging any time soon.
However, I feel confident that there will be some de-fudging going on.

These are numbers from all of time!
Everything since the paypal AbiFund has been setup is in here, not just this month or just this week.
Just in case you didn't figure that out, I'm restating it since the PayPal incident first incited interest in this.

PLEASE!
Help promote AbiWord development by
donating money. The money go to a general AbiWord "fund",
presently hosted by Dom Lachowicz (cinamod@hotmail.com).

In order to donate money, you must have a PayPal account. If you
do not already have one, the links above will allow you to open
one. Please consider putting cinamod@hotmail.com in the "Referral ID" field, which results in
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development if you verify your account. Note that only
donations of $3 or more are of interest. Sorry, this is due to
the fees imposed by credit card companies and PayPal.

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